Radiologist Salary in Georgia 2026,
$335,190 Median | BLS Data by City

A median $335,190 a year, or $161.15 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 20.4% below the national median of $420,860. The published ladder runs $164,670 at the 10th percentile to $813,360 at the 90th, with the 25th percentile also at $335,190 and the 75th at $426,180. Note that BLS publishes no Georgia employment figure or metro medians for this occupation.

OEWS suppresses cells that do not meet its reliability and confidentiality standards, and for this occupation in Georgia that has left the wage percentiles published while the state employment estimate and the metro rows are not. It is a data-availability outcome rather than a statement about the state's radiology capacity. The practical consequence for this page is that no workforce-size claim and no metro comparison can honestly be made, and the wage figures themselves should be read as a broad indication of the state's distribution rather than as a precise market rate.

Yes. Interpreting an imaging study for a patient in Georgia is the practice of medicine in Georgia and requires a licence from the Georgia Composite Medical Board, wherever the radiologist is physically located. That rule matters more here than in many states because Georgia has a large number of small and rural hospitals whose imaging is read remotely — the coverage that keeps those services running depends on Georgia-licensed radiologists, whether they sit in Atlanta or in another state entirely.

The honest answer is that the published cell is too thin to attribute a cause with confidence. What the distribution shows is a compressed lower half — the 25th percentile and the median are both $335,190 — beneath a long upper tail reaching $813,360, which is the shape produced when a large salaried employed tier sits under a smaller private practice group. The $426,180 seventy-fifth percentile is above the national median of $420,860, so the state's established practice tier is not below the national market.

More than it does for most occupations. Georgia levies a flat-rate state income tax rather than a progressive schedule, currently 5.49% on the rate basis used here, so the same proportion applies at the $335,190 median and at the $813,360 ninetieth percentile. Against states with progressive schedules whose top marginal rates on physician income run far higher, the advantage concentrates precisely at the upper end of this band. There is also no local income tax anywhere in Georgia.

As a shape rather than as a number. The most reliable information here is structural: the 25th percentile and the median coinciding at $335,190 tells you that a large block of Georgia radiologists are paid at essentially one salaried rate, and the $813,360 ninetieth percentile tells you there is a substantial private practice and subspecialty tier well above it. The absence of a state employment figure and of any metro row means comparisons between Atlanta and the rest of the state cannot be made from this data at all. A radiologist evaluating Georgia should treat the $426,180 seventy-fifth percentile as the more meaningful anchor and gather market intelligence elsewhere.

It is the median and the 25th percentile simultaneously, which means it marks a concentration point rather than a centre. It comes from a cell where BLS withheld the employment estimate and every metro row, so its precision should not be over-read. The wage measure excludes partnership distributions, per-study reading arrangements and after-hours differentials, all significant in radiology. And the 20.4% gap to the national median should be treated as provisional rather than as a settled characterisation of the Georgia market.

Practice structure first — the distance from the compressed $335,190 salaried tier to the $813,360 ninetieth percentile is overwhelmingly a matter of employment versus partnership. Subspecialty second, with interventional radiology and neuroradiology carrying the highest value. Reading volume third, since much of radiology compensation above base is productivity-linked, and Georgia's rural hospital coverage generates substantial remote reading demand. And the tax structure fourth, in the sense that Georgia's flat rate leaves more of a high income intact than a progressive state would.